Center For The Book

12/15/2016

Best Wishes for a Beautiful Holiday!

12/17/2015

Best wishes for a beautiful holiday season from your friends at Center for the Book!

01/03/2014

Center For The Book's cover photo

12/06/2013

Classic Books - Read.gov

Brought to you by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Classic Books of the Read.gov website

08/21/2013

Combining The Nation's Digitized Libraries, All In One Place : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/19/213498478/combining-the-nations-digitized-libraries-all-in-one-place

Libraries have been digitizing their collections for years, but the materials can be hard to find. Enter the Digital Public Library of America. Worried that Google has an outsized hand in digitizing books, the DPLA is combining, on one site, the digital collections of libraries nationwide — free.

07/26/2013

Magna Cartas to be Unified for First Time - Medieval manuscripts blog

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/07/magna-cartas-to-be-unified-for-first-time.html

The British Library, Lincoln Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral are delighted to announce that their copies of Magna Carta, issued by King John in 1215, are to be unified for the first time in 2015. In an event to be staged at the British Library in London, scholars, curators and conservators...

07/10/2013

How to… in the historical collections of NLM

http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/07/09/how-to-in-the-historical-collections-of-nlm/

By Michael Sappol The “how to” is an ancient genre. There are Egyptian how-to texts (in hieroglyphics) on how to prepare mummies; Sumerian how-tos (in cuneiform), on how to pray; Hellenistic how-to...

05/16/2013

Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux | The Field Museum

Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux | The Field Museum

Discovered by chance in 1940 by four teenagers, the Lascaux caves in southern France have inspired and awed anthropologists, pre-historians, scientists, and artists ever since. Beautifully subtle paintings and engravings of animals line the deep cave walls – sophisticated artwork created at the hand...

05/04/2013

How the Camel Got the Hump - Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/how-the-camel-got-the-hump.html

Some of you may be familiar with the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1902), which include "How the Leopard Got His Spots", "How the Elephant Got His Trunk", and "How the Camel Got His Hump". We like to think that Kipling, a man of letters, might have been able...

05/01/2013

Books That Shaped America - Exhibitions - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress)

http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/books-that-shaped-america/pages/default.aspx

Books That Shaped America marks a starting point—a way to spark a national conversation on books and their importance in Americans’ lives, and, indeed, in shaping our nation. The titles featured here have had a profound effect on American life, but they are by no means the only influential or best o...

04/27/2013

In honor of Shakespeare's birth (baptism April 26, 1564) and death (April 23, 1616) we present the full Shakespeare Collections in miniature! The open book is Macbeth.

04/17/2013

MAMF Stanley/Stella Project 2013

MAMF Stanley/Stella Project 2013

A Blog from the Museum of the American Military Family

04/03/2013

Filing, seventeenth-century style

http://collation.folger.edu/2013/03/filing-seventeenth-century-style/

When we think of filing today, we think of digital files and folders, and manilla folders, hanging files, and filing cabinets. But what did filing look like in early modern England? How did people ...

04/02/2013

About the Flat Stanley/Stella Project

http://mamfflatstanleyproject.wordpress.com/about-the-flat-stanleystella-project/

In April 2013 the Albuquerque Special Collections Library and the Museum of the American Military Family will celebrate the Month of the Military Child and Book Week by sending hundreds Flat Stanl...

03/13/2013

Book Patrol: Animated Pop-Up Books

http://www.bookpatrol.net/2013/03/animated-pop-up-books.html

03/07/2013

Books on Buildings: 20 Bookish Murals From Around the World

http://flavorwire.com/372562/books-on-buildings-20-bookish-murals-from-around-the-world/view-all

As you probably know, we're pretty big fans of literary street art here at Flavorpill. But when we caught a glimpse of this beautiful bookish fresco over at the Picador Book Room, we realized we'd ...

02/28/2013

Tenth Letter of the Alphabet: Comics: 3-D Comics

http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2013/02/comics-3-d-comics.html

02/17/2013

Oh! The Places You’ll Go!: The Amazing Places Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Discovered.

http://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/1169/

Julie Somers Lately, as I investigate the networks along which medieval manuscripts traveled, my thoughts often turn to connections with my own books. When I look at my home library, although many ...

02/08/2013

Highlights of Digital Scriptorium - Digital Scriptorium

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/highlights/

02/06/2013

Pictures of/from the new additions to the Center for the Book's collections.

02/02/2013

Fahrenheit 451 Cover Design Contest Winner Revealed - GalleyCat

Fahrenheit 451 Cover Design Contest Winner Revealed - GalleyCat

Fahrenheit 451 Cover Design Contest Winner Revealed

01/28/2013

Encore -- pride and prejudice

Today, January 28, is the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice!

01/25/2013

Lolcats of the Middle Ages - Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/01/lolcats-of-the-middle-ages.html

Detail of miniatures of cats catching mice, mice stealing eggs, and (below), an ancestor of Keyboard Cat: a later marginal doodle of a cat playing a stringed instrument; from a bestiary, England (Salisbury?), 2nd quarter of the 13th century, Harley MS 4751, f. 30v. The internet is considered by many...

01/19/2013

Books in other languages can be interesting to look at if nothing else.

01/12/2013

First field trip in the center since reopening.

01/09/2013

CHARLESTON - Oldest Southern library starts book bindery - News - TheState.com

CHARLESTON - Oldest Southern library starts book bindery - News - TheState.com

The oldest library in the South has started its own book bindery to bind, by hand, new editions of historic books and repair books in its collection of tens of thousands of volumes dating to the 15th century.

12/31/2012

Join ABC Library every weekend in January for a celebration of book to film adaptations, Books to the Big Screen! Presented in partnership with the Guild Cinema, KiMo Theatre, and South Broadway Cultural Center.

Saturday January 19 @ 4pm, is a fundraiser for the Friends for the Public Library. The film Doctor Zhivago will be shown at the KiMo Theatre. This epic film is the winner of 5 Academy Awards. Tickets are $7 and available at www.kimotickets.com

12/26/2012

Map collection showing California as an island goes to Stanford

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/16/local/la-me-island-maps-20121217

PALO ALTO - Something was unusual about the 1663 map of the Western Hemisphere. Yes, much of the North and South American coasts followed contours geographers would recognize today. And in...

12/18/2012

25 best book jackets of 2012 | The Book Case

25 best book jackets of 2012 | The Book Case

With the rise in e-readers, book jacket design is rumored to become a lost art. We don’t think so, but the game is certainly changing. Cool cover art still exists, but as the 25 best book jackets of 2012 show, they’re trending toward bold simplicity, with high-contrast colors and giant, graphic font...

12/13/2012

Eldon Meeks runs a Linotype machine

A working version of a Linotype Printing Machine! Very cool to see in action.

Eldon Meeks, 82, runs a Model 8 Linotype machine, vintage World War II, for the Wapsipinicon Almanac at Route Three Press in rural Anamosa, Iowa, in October ...

12/13/2012

Home - Special Collections Library - at ABC Library

Have any plans for Saturday? Come to the library's double-header! From 10:30 to 12 there will be a presentation of William Dunmire's "New Mexico's Living Landscapes". And then from 3 to 4 in the afternoon Monika Ghattas will be talking about, selling, and signing her new book "Los Arabes of New Mexico", just in time for Christmas! There is enough time for a leisurely lunch in between at one of the many restaurants nearby!

A branch of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Libraries.